[mgalgoci] policy I'd like to have set: "When people ask for email
aliases, the aliases are granted on the grounds that IS gets to decide
what the alias is."
[clee] mgalgoci: oh, oh! what's mine?
[hp] clee: I think your native american name is
he-who-hopes-to-get-laid-using-enterprise-groupware-solution

I'm blind, and it's dark. Music from Metal Gear Solid 3 floats through
my apartment and yet I can still hear the drops of blood hitting the
surface of the water as my nose drains.

Nosebleeds have been a pretty common occurrence for about as long as I
can remember; I've had them ever since I was a little kid. They've
started back up recently, after I had gone several months without having
any. I'm not sure exactly why but I think it might be somewhat related
to drinking soda. (While I was caffeine-free for that six weeks or so, I
didn't have a single nosebleed.) I've recently started drinking the
stuff again, since it's easier to drink it than not to, but I may have
to rethink that choice in light of this.

Oh well.

Speaking of Metal Gear Solid 3, I finally sat down and played through
the rest of it. I had gotten farther along than I thought before I
stopped playing it back in November, and the game is just amazing. I
can't think of enough words to describe how much I enjoyed playing
through this game.

[cliff] Hm. If I get a raise, I will buy a Powerbook. That will be like
donating my raise to charity. (In the sense that the raise will not be
reflected in my paychecks.)
[cliff] And it will make the world a happier place. (Where 'the world'
is me.)

One of the things I keep thinking about with KDE's much-vaunted
CVS->SVN migration is... why don't we just leave the CVS server up as
it is, and screw the whole "import the entire history of our repository
into SVN" idea?

Think about it.

The cvs2svn script is good. Don't get me wrong - it's pretty impressive.
But we've done some evil to our CVS repository - manually moved files,
etc, and cvs2svn is not perfect; why don't we just leave the CVS server
up and running read-only and import a snapshot (say, 3.4) into SVN
without trying to drag all of the history along?

People who want to pull absolutely 100% accurate checkouts of a given
revision can do it with the old tools and we can evaluate subversion
without having to deal with any possible issues brought up by weirdness
caused by cvs2svn.

I personally think this may be the smartest way to move forward, but I'm
sure that others have differing opinions. Care to share them with
me?

Somehow managed to get the ThinkPad apart, and dropped in the new card,
and connected the antennae, and turned it on, and was greeted rather
rudely by two beeps and the infamous Error 1802.

I was prepared for this though. I expected to spend the rest of the day
hacking around IBM's evil authorized-miniPCI-card whitelist and being
otherwise 1337 just like mjg59. But instead, I found the source for a
neat little hack that resets part of the nvram to a magic value and
disables the whitelist check.

All this means for those of you who don't speak Geek is that I overrode
some IBM stupidity and made my hardware work the way it should. Which
should have been much easier, but hey, this is Linux, and we like things
like lseek(fd, 0x5c, SEEK_SET) just fine.

I spent most of this week at LinuxWorld in Boston (and the very
beginning of the week at the XDevConf, which ajax took notes of) so my
legs are killing me. But last night, Google sponsored this amazingly
kick-ass dinner for a few dozen of us free software hacker types, and it
was completely badass.

They had some issues with their food distribution algorithms though.
Hopefully next year, if they roll out Google Dinner 2.0, they'll have
that algorithm sorted out. (It took an inordinate amount of time to get
our food since everyone had to wait in a huge line to get served -
there's definitely room for optimization there, I think.)

I talked Dave Jones into coming along and we had an awesome time. As
soon as we walked in, we were accosted by Google folks who made us fill
out some registration cards. One of the fields on the card said "Desired
position" so I asked the woman (who had an amazingly kick-ass Google
shirt, one with a female symbol on one of the 'o's in Google, but I
digress) "What does this 'desired position' field mean?"

"We want to know, if you were to work for us, what position would you
want to have?"

This stunned me. What an amazingly smart way of getting people
interested. So davej and I filled in "spaceman" and "Batman"
respectively. I mean, if Google is going to be hiring someone to be
Batman, I certainly hope that they'd consider me for the position,
because I think I could do really well in that role.

Got to meet some cool people there, including Mako who apparently
wanted to meet me because he knew who I was. Finding out that other
people know who I am and want to meet me.... that's kinda freaky. I
mean, granted, we're not talking about Havoc Pennington-style rockstar
status.